Word: bargaining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chuck Luckman got a bargain because the cosmetics business has looked none too pretty lately. (Sales have dropped so much that many a company has had to take back merchandise from retailers.) And after 30 years of hard work, Ayer's president and owner, Mrs. Lillian Sefton Thomas Dodge, sixtyish, had had enough...
Papa's union even included employers. He had found it advisable, in the case of small companies with only two partners, to make one partner join the union. Then he would "bargain" for the union with the other partner. In the face of this power, John McCauley, Brooklyn potato wholesaler, signed his contract without looking at it. "The union said everyone else was signing...
...host who entered was not Hoover but Federal Trade Commissioner Lowell Mason; he had paid $84 out of his own pocket for the luncheon, including the roses, currently selling at the summer bargain price of 72? a dozen. With Mason were familiar capital figures: New Jersey's lumbering Senator Albert Hawkes, Presidential Economic Adviser Edwin Nourse, White House Aide Charles Murphy, New York's Congressman Frederic Coudert. There was one stranger, a fierce-eyed, one-armed man whom nobody knew...
...foremen who had struck, several hundred had already agreed with Ford and had returned to their jobs. F.A.A. had failed to get much sympathy from the C.I.O.-U.A.W., and the Taft-Hartley law will relieve industry of any obligation to bargain with supervisory employees. At week's end, the foremen still on strike meekly voted to go back to work. They sorrowfully admitted that F.A.A., which had existed chiefly by grace of the Ford contract, was about dead...
...much Government interference: "The bill in no way interferes with the rights of the parties to bargain, in no way limits the right to strike . . . except in the case of a nationwide strike. . . . There might be something in the argument [if] the Government had not intervened in every collective bargaining on the side of labor. . . . The administration of the Wagner Act . . . made it so one-sided as to produce a general public demand that the law operate both ways. This is the effect of the new bill...